GORGEOUS JAPANESE YUKATA COTTON KIMONO / ROBE / DRESSING GOWN with SIMPLE TIE BELT - TRADITIONAL WHITE ON DARK BLUE BACKGROUND Floral Design - Hydrangea and Bamboo - MID to LATE SHOWA PERIOD.
This is a lovely, authentic, truly vintage, yukata in excellent vintage condition with a beautiful and traditional design.
The base fabric is good quality, very soft, smooth cotton. The feel is unusually soft. The colours white on a very dark blue background. The pattern is very traditional and oriental in style, showing large hydrangea flowers and leaves with long vertical bamboo canes. It is a gorgeous and traditional style design!
I am also supplying a simple tie belt, newly-made from vintage kimono cotton in a very dark blue (near black) colour. This tie belt be used to allow the yukata to be used as a dressing gown / housecoat at home. Authentic Japanese kimono are usually worn with a special obi belt which would be bought separately.
In Japan yukata are worn for casual summer occasions/festivals.
It is fully hand-stitched and has good quality cotton, and a pattern that does not look contemporary.
This yukata is lined in the traditional way in the shoulder and seat areas only.
Authentic Japanese, women's yukata can be very long and this one is quite long although a few inches shorter contemporary yukata (which are very long indeed). Being a bit shorter suggests it has some age. As it is still fairly long, it would suit a taller woman or could be easily shortened in the normal way.
AGE & CONDITION: This yukata seems to have some age as it is fully hand stitched, has good quality cotton, an older style of patterning & is a little shorter than contemporary kimono (which are very long indeed). I would guess it is mid to late Showa Period (1926-1989). It is difficult to be accurate about aging some traditional kimono as they have been made the same way for decades.
The condition is vintage excellent which means it has no major or conspicuous faults. The white cotton lining in the shoulder area is very slightly blue, possibly from being washed. It is a vintage item so please do not expect it to look exactly like new.
The simple tie belt is newly-made from darkest blue vintage kimono cotton.
SIZE: This yukata is slightly larger in body size, than is a typical size for a vintage yukata. I think this would fit a range of sizes as it is a wrap round style, up to a maximum of UK size 14/ possibly small UK 16 (US size 12/possibly small US14).
Sleeve edge to sleeve edge width is 1135cm/53”, overall length is 147cm/58", the width across the back (side seam to side seam) is 63cm/25”.
The white tie belt is about 65"/165cm long and 2"/5cm wide. The weight of the set is about 540g.
WHY CAN SOME WOMEN'S KIMONO BE SO LONG? they are traditionally shortened by hitching up at the waist and hiding the excess fabric behind the wide obi belt. (I can send instructions on how to do this, if you want them). If you want to shorten a long yukata for ease of use then of course it can be hemmed up in the normal way. If the yukata is very long, then the excess material from the hem can be used to make a simple matching tie belt. If you are handy with sewing, then you might like to try this.
Washing information - Cotton yukata can usually be hand or machine washed at low temperatures. However, very occasionally vintage yukata will have colour runs in water so please test before washing.
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